doublet

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  1. noun A close-fitting jacket, with or without sleeves, worn by European men between the 15th and 17th centuries.
  2. noun A pair of similar or identical things.
  3. noun A member of such a pair.

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  • The arrangement used for the doublet is from the 1970 ARRL Antenna Book. —  eHam.net News
  • "This trial, which included almost two-thirds such women, challenges this traditional paradigm and suggests that a non-platinum doublet is also effective in this setting," he said. —  Health News from Medical News Today
  • The lower part of the doublet is a skirt falling just above the knees Illustration: MASTER CREWE AS HENRY VIII Over all is flung a handsome mantle; but this is drawn apart in front to display the smart waistcoat to full advantage. —  Sir Joshua Reynolds A Collection of Fifteen Pictures and a Portrait of the Painter with Introduction and Interpretation
  • Sir quoth the Gentleman to excuse it: if I should not be able whan I had need to pisse out of my doublet, and to do the rest in my netherstocks (vsing the plaine terme) all men would say that I was but a lowte, the Councellor laughed hartily at the absurditie of the speech, but what those sower fellows of Rome haue said trowe ye? —  The Arte of English Poesie
  • As it illumined the white and silver doublet, and glowed in the rubies, the Bishop conceived the whimsical fancy that the Knight might well be some splendid archangel, come down to force the Convent gates and carry off a nun to heaven. —  The White Ladies of Worcester A Romance of the Twelfth Century
 

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Etymologies (2)

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  1. Middle English, from Old French, diminutive of double, double; see double.

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  1. from Middle English dublet, dobbelet, doblette, doplyt, etc., from Old French doublet, masculine, also doublette, French doublet, double stone, a garment so called (also called doublier; cf. doublier, doublour, lining for a garment), from double, double, + diminutive -et.
 

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